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- Federal Grant Programs for Community Development: Déjà Vu and Policy Paradoxes in an Ill-Fated Initiative
This article reviews and analyzes the goals and approaches espoused in the George W. Bush administration's proposed Strengthening America's Communities Initiative (SACI). Drawing on a variety of materials describing the rationale, purpose, assumptions, goals, and components of the newest policy approach to community and economic development, this paper tries to critically examine the initiative using a capacity-building framework and some of the historical antecedents of Federal grant programs for community development - including some defunct programs to inform current discussion about the proposal. Two conclusions of this analysis are that this proposal has much more in common with previous administrations' proposals for development over the last several decades than its advocates are...
- Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management
- Vol. 20 Nbr. 1, April 2008
- Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) Inviting Applications for the Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI) for Fiscal Year 2011 and Fiscal Year 2012
This Notice announces the availability of $8,611,000 of FYs 2011 and 2012 funding of competitive grant funds for the RCDI program through the Rural Housing Service (RHS), an agency within the USDA Rural Development mission area (Agency). Appropriation Acts made available $4,990,000 in FY 2011 and $3,621,000 in FY 2012 for the RCDI program for a total of $8,611,000 for the two fiscal years. The RCDI grant program includes an initiative called the Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge. For FY 2011 and the FY 2012 RCDI funds will be divided between the traditional RCDI Program and the Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge as follows: $2,500,000 of the FY 2011 funds and $1,811,000 of the FY 2012 funds will be available for the traditional RCDI program and $2,490,000 of t...
- Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 16519, March 21, 2012
- Notices
- Rural Housing Service
- FY 2011 Discretionary Funding Opportunity; Section 5309 Bus and Bus Facilities Veterans Transportation and Community Living Initiative
The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects funded under the Veterans Transportation and Community Living Initiative (VTCLI) discretionary grant program, which was announced in the Section 5309 Discretionary Bus and Bus Facilities Program notice of funding availability on July 27, 2011. The VTCLI grant program makes funds available to local, state and tribal agencies to create or expand One- Call/One-Click Transportation Resource Centers in their communities. These centers will increase the availability of community transportation resources to veterans, service members and military families and improve the accessibility of existing mobility resources and other transportation information to the whole community. Ad...
- Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 78732, December 19, 2011
- Notices
- Transportation Department

- Faith-based initiative 2.0: the Bush faith-based and community initiative.
Critics of President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative (1) often claimed that it was not a serious public policy effort, but rather a political ...
- Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Vol. 32 Nbr. 3, June 2009
- Big Ten Network Launches Major Community Service Initiative ; Give Big Will Use Network's Reach to Honor University Supporters' Service, Encourage Others
CHICAGO, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to honor, encourage and support the thousands of Big Ten community members who give back, the Big Ten Network is launching Give Big, a major community service initiative. Beginning Friday, the network will feature a top community- service effort of a Big Ten supporter during Big Ten Tailgate, which visits a different Big Ten campus each week during football season. Some profiles will focus on the efforts of famous athletes such as Wisconsin's Devin Harris and Minnesota's Karl Mecklenburg, as well as remarkable projects undertaken by community leaders better known locally.
- U.S. Newswire
- January 20, 2011
- Brotherhood Crusade Receives Elevate America Community Initiative Grant From Microsoft
According to the Economic Policy Institute, young adults represent 13.5 percent of flie workforce but account for 26.4 percent of unemployed workers.
- Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
- March 14, 2011
- The Oregon Community Engagement Initiative: A Multi-Case Study of a Disability Coalition Development Process.
This article reports on the development and implementation of a community development technique focusing on local access issues for people with disabi...
- Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society
- Vol. 40 Nbr. 1, March 2009
- Funds Availability (NOFA): Applications for the Rural Community Development Initiative (Fiscal Year 2009)
- FR, June 26, 2009
- Notices
- Rural Housing Service
- Twelve Nonprofit Community Development Groups Named As Recipients of the Metlife Foundation Community Development Initiative
National program awards grants of $1 million in two years NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MetLife Foundation today announced that it is awarding $500,000 among 12 nonprofit community development groups in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area as part of its 2010 Community Development Initiative. The organizations are being recognized for leadership and excellence in implementing affordable housing and economic development activities that increase access and opportunity in diverse lower-income neighborhoods. The groups received grants of up to $50,000 each. Since 2009, MetLife Foundation has awarded $1 million through the Community Development Initiative.
- U.S. Newswire
- January 20, 2011
- President George W. Bush Delivers Remarks On the Faith-Based and Community Initiative
PRESIDENT BUSH DELIVERS REMARKS ON THE FAITH-BASED AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVE, BALTIMORE, AS RELEASED BY THE WHITE HOUSE JANUARY 29, 2008 SP...
- Political Transcript Wire
- August 24, 2009